Today we focus on a single grape variety, riesling; from one producer, Johannes Selbach; and from one region: Germany's Mosel Saar Ruwer. Each of these un-wooded wines with piercingly fresh fruit flavours can shock your palate the first time around but
Tojo's Hidekazu Tojo is one of the best-known sushi maestros in Vancouver. This beaming mustachioed Japanese chef has a loyal clientele that regularly fills Tojo's restaurant, though most people want to sit at the 10-seat sushi bar. He's endlessly innovative,
Last month I travelled to Los Angeles to attend a tasting of what organizers were calling "the ultra-premium wines of Chile." As pretentious as that sounds, I don't blame the Chileans for searching for some sort of calling card that might improve their
When Australian wine crusader Peter Gago steps up to the microphone, it doesn't take long before the room goes silent. The former school teacher and radio broadcaster turned winemaker and author is the Pied Piper of Penfolds Wines. He's at the top of
This week, a return to new listings in B.C. liquor stores, made all the more welcome by the disclosure that the new products program, launched in 25 government liquor stores known for their high wine sales, is getting an important fine-tuning. Regular
If there's one wine-producing country that ought to be selling a lot more in this market, it's New Zealand. More than a decade after their arrival on the world wine stage, Kiwi producers have a meagre 57 listings in B.C. liquor stores, and it's doubtful
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa - If wines were judged according to the natural beauty of their originating vineyards, there's little doubt in my mind that South Africa's would rank among the best in the world. Fortunately for the producers of the Western
The Perrin families have lived in harmony with their native Provence for six generations, thanks to employing a simple winemaking philosophy. Jean-Pierre Perrin says: "We try to place the vine in its universe, that is to say we relate it to the earth,
Today's column offers a change from the usual format. Instead of my opinion and perhaps those of a colleague or three, you get the collective verdict, category by category, on B.C. varietals, from a blind tasting by 21 Okanagan winemakers. It's not
Switching back to whites in the middle of a red wine frenzy may seem a little offbeat, but one thing British Columbians seem to do better than most other North Americans is to live at the edge of fashion. The past two decades of food-and-wine tasting
Thousands of consumers got a jump on summer last week at the Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival. The spirit-raising effect of some stellar spring weather had them reaching for the lightest and freshest wines inside the huge tasting room at Canada Place. German
There's only one big wine story this week, and the 24th Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival is it. The week-long celebration of the grape (and the crowd it attracts) provides a great opportunity to nab well-known international producers to taste with, and
When the doors to the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival tasting room open next week, Viña Errazuriz, a leading advocate of premium Chilean wine, will be pouring some of its best efforts from several appellations. The Chadwick family,
Portuguese port is one of the world's greatest fortified wines, and one look at the steeply terraced vineyards of the upper Douro Valley would convince most observers that the ever-changing topography where the grapes are grown is the key to this wine's
Next week the global wine community returns to B.C. for the 24th Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival. Over two dozen years, a special relationship has emerged that has not only seen the knowledge of consumers grow in concert with that of exhibitors,
I don't know about you, but when I see names like "Mystic Cliffs," "Sawmill Creek" or "Crimson Bay" on a wine label, I immediately picture golf course developments or subdivisions of retirement homes. Maybe that's what the producer had in mind, although
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